C S S C N E W S L E T T E R Vol 3 No 6 May 18, 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Another Digital Days 2.0 Sending email to a Bitnet address 3.0 Need to unsubscribe from lists if you subscribed with Bitnet address 4.0 EcoSim: A Comprehensive Economic Simulation...any campus interested? 5.0 Calls received/answered by SCACAD, SCADM and SCSYS for April 1995 1.0 Another Digital Days PUTTING TECHNOLOGY TO WORK A TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ROAD SHOW SYRACUSE, NY Wednesday, May 31st Syracuse Marriott 6302 Carrier Parkway East Syracuse, NY 13057 DIGITAL DAYS AGENDA SYRACUSE, NY May 31, 1995 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:00 Client Server 10:00 Enterprise Wide Information Systems 11:00 - 3:30 Presentations and Demonstrations Break Out Session 1 - Improving Plant Floor Productivity - World Wide Web & the Internet - Windows NT Strategy and Direction Break Out Session 2 - Cycle Time Reduction for Discrete Manufacturing - High Performance Computing Solutions - Storage Technologies Critical Role in Heterogenious Client/Server Environments Break Out Session 3 - Network Access and Wireless LAN Technology - Oracle V7, VLM - Gaining Flexible, High-Performance Access to Corporate Data in a Three Tier Client/Server Environment (Accessworks & Objectbroker) Demo Room Closes at 3:30 pm. To make reservations, call 1-800-713-4430. 2.0 Sending email to a Bitnet address Eventually Bitnet will be going away at State University campuses. Users should be *STRONGLY* encouraged to find out and use the Internet address for the BITNET node they're sending to if it exists since more than 70% of all BITNET nodes are also on the Internet. To get a listing of Internet addresses send the following command to listserv@bitnic.cren.net get internet listing netinfo f=mail and to have LISTSERV send you the updates every month send the command: fui add internet listing netinfo f=mail If you must send email to a Bitnet address, this is how to do it: You must convert the address and send it through a gateway. If the address is as follows: user@node.bitnet drop the .bitnet so the address becomes: user@node change the @ to an %: user%node then add a gateway address to the end: user%node@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Thanks to Jim Gerland from SUNY at Buffalo for help with these instructions. 3.0 Need to unsubscribe from lists if you subscribed with Bitnet address Before Bitnet goes away probably this year, people need to be advised to unsubscribe from LISTSERV lists when they subscribed with a BITNET address and re-subscribe under their Internet address. Some or many of your users will have difficulty unsubscribing from some lists -- lists which (for good reason) will insist that the unsubscribe request originate from user@xxx.BITNET. To unsubscribe Unsubscribe at the $ (send listserv@xxx unsub listname) OR in an email message prefix the address with JNET%. To Unsub from send to any listserv address the following all lists command: SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE If the users do not know how they are subscribed they can send a message to "listserv@node" with the text of REVIEW "LIST" (i.e., review win3-l). The Jnet command is $ send listserv@ubvm review "list". They will either be sent a list of current subscribers or at least the owner of the list who can be emailed to remove the subscriber from the list if the user is not able to do this. Thanks to Jim Greenberg from SUNY College at Oneonta for help with these instructions 4.0 EcoSim: A Comprehensive Economic Simulation...any campus interested? Please let us know if any campus is interested in this software. If there is interest, we will get the software and make it available in GETSOFTWARE. EcoSim: A Comprehensive Economic Simulation EcoSim software is available to interested colleges and universities at no charge for a limited time. EcoSim is an economic simulation in which students play the roles of companies, groups of people, the government and the central bank. The computer software does not create the economy, but only acts as a game referee. The players create the economic forces of demand and supply as they interact with each other. Students can do almost everything within the simulation that can be done in the real world. Companies purchase materials from other companies and labor from populations to produce a product which they sell to populations or other companies. Companies can issue bonds and stock to raise money which they can invest in capital accumulation or research and development. All prices, interest rates, production and consumption levels, etc. are determined by the players themselves as they attempt to maximize profits and utilities. Many opportunities for entrepreneurship exist. The government/central bank can impose sales and income taxes, sales quotas, issue transfer payments, alter the money supply, pass laws regulating commerce, manufacture public goods. Students playing companies and populations are graded based on the amount of profit and utility they obtain over the course of the game. Students playing the government are graded based on the number of votes they receive from the other players over the course of the game. A typical game runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, over the course of an entire semester. Students generally play the game on their own time outside of class. EcoSim is designed for use in the following courses (the same game can be used in all courses simultaneously): Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics, Money & Banking, Public Sector Economics. Government and Political Science students can be teamed up with the government players, and Public Relations and Finance students can be teamed up with the company players. Hardware requirements: VAX minicomputer (a windows based PC network version is currently under development). 5.0 Calls received/answered by SCACAD, SCADM and SCSYS for April 1995 SCACAD 9 SCADM 66 SCSYS 48 Editor: Betty Spencer SCACAD@SNYBSCVA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU